HMS Weazel (1745)
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HMS Weazel or Weazle was a 16-gun ship-sloop of the Royal Navy, in active service during the War of the Austrian Succession, the Seven Years' War and the American Revolutionary War. Launched in 1745,
Waterfront at Deptford, where Weazel was commissioned for service in 1745.
Samuel Barrington
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Admiral of the White Samuel Barrington was a Royal Navy officer. Barrington was the fourth son of John Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington of Beckett Hall at Shrivenham in Berkshire. He enlisted in th
HMS Weazel (1745)
…the year Commander Palliser was made post-captain and assigned to the 70-gun ship of the line HMS Captain; his place on Weazel was taken by Commander Samuel Barrington. On 24 April 1747 Weazel was off the Dutch coastline and in company with HMS Lys, when she encountered and defeated the privateers La Gorgonne and La…
Portrait by Nathaniel Dance-Holland, c. 1770
Marble monument by John Flaxman to Barrington in St Andrew's Church, Shrivenham